From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ichi@ihug.co.nz Subject: Re: RAM and swap partition Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 07:13:38 +0000 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3DF442A2.733E0A33@ihug.co.nz> References: <20021208002415.24931.qmail@web11406.mail.yahoo.com> <5.1.0.14.1.20021208075330.020a30f0@celine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Ray Olszewski Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Ray Olszewski wrote: > > (only Slackware, I think, still offers a "low memory" > install option) The latest Slackware (8.1) still provides a low-mem kernel. However the standard installation scheme is too big to run in 8mb RAM. The instructions say 16mb RAM is required, although 12mb is probably enough with the low-mem kernel. For machines with less RAM than this, the instructions recommend ZipSlack (which runs on a DOS filesystem). There is, however, another option for computers with 8mb RAM or less: ------------------------------------------- http://www.volny.cz/basiclinux/slack81.html ------------------------------------------- This uses a special low-RAM installation script that installs Slackware 8.1 to an ext2 partition. Cheers, Steven - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs